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Why "ipse hic" is used here and not "ipse tu"?

The pronoun ipse refers to the implicit pronoun tu. While ipse can be used with personal or other pronouns like you list, it is also often used on its own even when referring to actors that are ...
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Position of reflexive pronouns

In Latin Word Order: Structured Meaning and Information, p 286, Devine and Stephens say: In styles like that of Livy, which allow V-bar syntax, a weak pronoun can remain in the base verb phrase as a ...
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